Join us on March 20 to celebrate Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQIA+ Celebration and Awareness Day. RRC Polytech is hosting a Two-Spirit Film Festival to showcase the radiance and diversity of Two-Spirit identities, expression and experience.

The Film Festival will take place at Notre Dame Campus in The Spectrum from noon to 1pm and at the Exchange District Campus in E155 from 1pm – 2pm.

Both sites will feature screenings of First Stories – Two Spirited; Second Stories – Deb-we-win Ge-ken-am-aan, Our Place in the Circle; and Woman Dress.

No registration is required.

About the films

First Stories – Two Spirited is a documentary that presents the empowering story of Rodney “Geeyo” Poucette’s struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a Two-Spirited Person. Two Spirited was produced through First Stories, an emerging filmmaker program for Indigenous youth. The program saw three separate collections of short films from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta

Second Stories – Deb-we-win Ge-ken-am-aan, Our Place in the Circle is a representation of Lorne Olson’s vision of Two-Spirited people dancing, laughing and smiling. His vision spurs him to rediscover the strength of the past to better face the challenges of today—this funny and buoyant film documents his touching journey. Second Stories followed the success of First Stories and continued training with Indigenous filmmakers from the first program.

Woman Dress is a pre-contact story about a Two-Spirit person named Woman Dress, who travels the Plains while gathering and sharing stories. Woman Dress features archival images, recounts scenes of dramatized re-enactments, and shares a Cuthand family oral story while honouring and respecting Woman Dress without imposing colonial binaries on them.